The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-04-28
Mr.. Moses Joseph. aged s4 years, died


Lon of Congress convened.
Mr.. John Hastings, of Louisville, Ky,
Who year ago returned from Honolulu,
las broken out with leprosy.
One hundred and eighty Thousand trade
dollars arrived at New York last Thursday
from China and Japan, which are to be re-
deemed with standard silver dollars.
Mr.. John B. Hereford, brother Of Hon.
Frank Hereford, of Monroe county, w.
Va. died last week He was lawyer by
profession and married, and leaves an es-
tate worth $4,000.
Mai Jno. f. Blaine, paymaster in tie
a my, died at Arkansas Hot Springs last
week. He was brother of Hon. James
G. Blaine, who is very much depressed on
account of the sad occurrence.
Col. Stith Boiling, of Petersburg, |
h IS been selected to fill the vacancy, on
the State Republican Executive Commit
te,, occasioned by the resignation of Col.
w G. Elan.
w. A. Braithwate has been appointed
jan.tor of the United States Court House
a, Harrisonburg. with A. d. Woodson as
assistant. Mr.. b. receives S45 per month,
and MIR. Woodson $35.
The Kentucky Central Railroad has
been purchased by Mr.. G. T. Huntington,
President of the Newport News and Mis-
issippi Railway-colllng stock at $780,
900, and the road itself at 81 800 600.
Hon. II. IT, Riddleberger was in Iafri-
sonburg last week, on business. The
s,.irit says he was looking well, and was
outspoken in his advocacy of Republican
principles. That was to have been OK
pected.
Lady Amoor, of the English nobility,
was OH visit to Charlotte, N. C.. where
her uncle owns gold mine. She fell in
love with miner. named Henry Bell, and
oil the odd inst ,eloped with him. Itcaussd
sensation.
Four bricks. presented to the assayer at
New York as gold, were found to be cop
per, was he'd with gold, worth about 81. in
stead of $40 600, as was thought by the
gentleman who left them there. 1t was Il
sell of the worst kind.
Mr.. VIM. Golladay. formerly connected
with the Internal Revenue Service, died
at his residepce near Harrisonburg, on the
14th inst. aged y years. He was mem
Der of the Methodist Church, and a gentle,
unpretentious. yet useful citizen.
Clayton G. Coleman, of Louisa county,
Va. LAS been appointed an examiner i'll
the Land Office at q salary of 81 500, and
assigned to duty at Santa Fe, New MeXi-
co, the position recently held 10y John D..
Pennybacker. of Rockingham county.
There are five colored lawy eTs in New
York city, who have comfortable practice
at the bar Nine -tenths OF their eherts
are white, which evidences that their abil-
ity is more than ordinary, and their appl-
cation to business such as commands the
confidence of litigants.
1t j. w. Danenhower, of Jeanette and
Arctic fame, committed suicide at Annap-
oils last Thursday. He had been suffering
from insomnia and want of appetite, conse-
quentfy nervous irritation, from which his
mind became unbalanced. lie shot himself
through the right temple. His age was
about &c.
Mr.. James IT. Mar, the veteran chief
clerk of the f irst Assistant Postmaster
Generals office, died on the 25th inst,
aged Il years.. He had been in continuous
coruioa il, tho rt ,,nnt for mora n
half century, and was universally es-
tened for his courtesy, integrity and ef-
ficiency as an officer. lie had been i'll for
long time.
1t is now charged that the dispatch from
Washington to St. Louis paper, stating
that President Cleveland had positively
asserted that he would not be candidate
for re nomination, was sent out as feel
er." The response being favorable to his
denomination, it is now claimed that be
could not and should not refuse the nomi-
,tion in 1855.
Edward F. Bingham, of Ohio, has been
appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, to sue
coed the late Judge Carter. This is the
position which it was said by newspaper
correspondents wonld be probably rendered
Hon. j. r. Tucker. Mr.. T. says, howey-
er, that he IS not. and has not been. an ap
plicant for any office in the gift Of the
President.
1t is stated that Henry W. Grady, of
Atlanta, and Mai Burke, of Nem Orleans.
and another Southern editor, contemplate
starting daily paper in New York, de
voted to Southern interests. It is claimed
that there are enough Souiher men in
New York to sustain it. In that they
will be mistaken. There are already three
leading Democratic papers in that city
the World, the Sun, ard the Star. and
there is no room for another.
The open and undisguised efforts of
Cleveland to secure his reorganization by
the Democrats for President through the
use of official patronage are causing some
severe criticisms from the Democratic
press. The transparency of the movement
makes it plain to every one, and exposes
the civil service reform false pretenses and
the monumental SelhShness and dema-
goguery of the man. His nomination will
suit the Republicans toa dot, as his de-
feat would be one of the certain things of
the future.
At Kokomo, Indiana, a few weeks age,
Mrs. Lizzie Herman was cured of paralysis
by prayer She was unable TO assist her.
self in any way; her limbs were bent al
most double, and it was necessary to wheel
her to mission church where revival
was progressing. She was the subject Of
earnest prayer. that the invalid might he
restored latter which MIS-. Herman, rising
from her chair and walking about the
room. gave thanks for her res. Grafton. She
has been growing stronger each day since
her remarkable cure.
A careful calculation in the New York
Grocer gives the total annual cost of liquor
for drink to the people of the united
States at seven hundred million dollars
Add to this the cost of crime, pauperism,
impaired physical and intellectual ener-
gles, and other evils directly traceable to
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